task force with the force of law to make this happen. san jose is doing it. london, berlin, pares, all the major cities have done this. so, i'd like to urge the board of supervisors to have a plan to make this happen and happen quickly. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. my name is eugene gordon, jr. redress conditions reflect environment review. dictionary tends to provide dictionary -- dictatorial [speaker not understood]. we the people have addressed so many times. [speaker not understood]

education, schooling, work is based upon capital currency [speaker not understood]. monopoly capitalist, imperialist, racialist, [speaker not understood], surrounding planet earth sovereign nations with military basins defending its interests. witness 77 6 victory of african-american negro slave owners, declaration of independence, [speaker not understood] amendment of the constitution, fortification of the nation. this is such a timing for heart beat cloaked, environment review with this media entertainment, advertising industry, supernatural in party, opposition, an aura of fascist language, inflections, market speculation, 2013 pitch, who's who, mental health, george washington, and thomas

jefferson, african negro slave owners, presidents, [speaker not understood] democracy dictatorship. 17 76, 2013, this reading given two minutes. >> thank you very much. before the next speaker, we have a 3:30 special commendation, and i'd like to acknowledge deputy sheriffs. thank you, everyone. i'd like to acknowledge our colleagues supervisors farrell and breed with a special commendation they want to jointly offer. supervisor farrell. >> thank you. colleague, supervisor breen and

i have the distinct honor of recognizing the basketball team from sacred heart prep. we're switching roles here. i get to honor the ladies basketball team first. girls, why don't you come on up to the microphone here. (applause) >> well, colleagues, it's a great honor for me to recognize this team. to the sacred heart team, it's a little awkward for me as a st. ignatius graduate. i still haven't brought the team in front of me. a freshman football coach reminded me when we were

playing sacred heart, remember for the rest of the high school, you're not going to like the kids from the peninsula, but you'll be best of friends. i hope you guys continue to have that as well. colleagues, the reason i get the chance to honor the girls basketball team today is because they were not only wcal khan, but the division 3 california champions and state runners up in the basketball season. so, congratulations, girls. (applause) >> a few more parts about them i get to read. they were 25 and 7 overall. they won the doherty valley classic to begin with. you beat si five times this year? oh, boy. [laughter] >> including [speaker not understood]. >> i was trying to get away with one there, i think. they outscored their opponents by 17.7 points per game in the norcal championship and again had many titles as a born and raised san franciscan, as a

member of this board of supervisors, having a city team accomplish all of those things is a really incredible accomplishment. i really want to congratulate you girls. i want to also in particular congratulate coach russell -- where is coach russell? coach russell is a first year coach this year. so, another huge honor and a huge congratulations to you for what you did with your team the first year. i know what a accomplishment that is to bring all the girls together on a team together like that and all those honors are really well deserved. congratulations. and i want to name each one of you if i'm going to butcher these names i'm sorry, but you all deserved to be named here. so, thank you. kaihla, ashley, giana, [speaker not understood], ayana, angela, kassana, [speaker not understood], and jerias enery uke.

-- enriquez. and special mention for [speaker not understood] for winning team honors. >> wow. (applause) >> so, again, girls, really an honor to bring you in front of us today. congrats on an incredible season. on behalf of our city government and board of supervisors, we want to let you know how very proud we are. look forward to having an equal season next year, and bouncing the record with my wild cats. [laughter] >> so, congratulations. >> thank you. (applause)

>> congratulations to sacred heart's women's basketball team. now on to the men. supervisor breed. >> all right, thank you, supervisor farrell. and it's my honor to honor the boys basketball team. so, fellas, come on up. (applause) >> i am honor today be here

with my -- i'll wait till you guys come on up. come on. you guys are tall, huh? some super stars, all right. i'm supervisor london breed and i'm here today to honor the sacred heart cathedral boys basketball team. i went to gallileo so you don't have anything to worry about. today they are being honored for their hard work and dedication that took them to this year's division 3 state's championship after winning the northern california championship against american canyon high school. you guys can play, huh? the san francisco examiner's coach of the year, mr. darrell barbon, thank you for being here, led them to sacramento where for the second year in a row they competed for the state title in boys basketball. these players are great example of what can be accomplished when hard work and teamwork

come together in our communities. the only high school in california to send two teams to the state championship is yet another example of sacred heart cathedral's positive i pact on district 5 [speaker not understood] which it has continued to be since its founding in 1952. i grew up just down the street from this school and are you guys still running around the park up the hill, that really, really steep hill, no? coach, you're letting them sleep on the job? [laughter] >> but i'm just really so happy today that you all are here because you are the future. and coming together in a team, you think, well, you know, it's not a big deal. it's what i love to do. but it's really amazing to be able to demonstrate this kind of teamwork which can lead you to some major accomplishments. so, today we're honoring you because of your hard work, your commitment, your dedication, and hopefully your good grades because you need good grades to

play basketball. but again, i'm just honored to be here with you today and to honor you and congratulate you on your hard work. so, thank you so much. (applause) >> thank you. [multiple voices] >> 1, 2, 3.

(applause) >> thank you, supervisor breed. give it up for sacred heart. thank you so much. (applause) >> and with that, why don't we go back to general public comment. let's hear from our next speaker, please. good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. for history it's too bad not boston. but here's four-time winner of the boston marathon, last to win [speaker not understood] a couple years ago. bill rogers for a time, four-time new york marathon winner. the sheriff wrote a book. the sheriff wrote a book, isn't that great?

sheriff taylor from mayberry rfd, andy griffith's book, andy taylor from mayberry. one of his many books. too bad he died. i'm sorry to hear that. also who died, annette funachello. in 1998. i met her in a supermarket in stones town. it's no longer there. ♪ hey there city georgy girl swinging down the street for equal pay and city hall will hear you today you're always window shopping and never stopping to buy and you're gonna get equal pay and that you're going to try to get it for you city georgy girl

you're living all the things that you can be and we're gonna have equal pay we're gonna be free wake up city hall you're gonna have it all city hall equal pay for all thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. thank you. i hate to bring it back to the [speaker not understood] portion, but i do want to dedicate these couple minutes to my brother carlos [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. i mean at s.f. state 40 years ago or more. my mother is a librarian. my daughter is a librarian. i'm standing here in between the poet [speaker not understood].

as long as i have my library card. but i'm here to talk about [speaker not understood]. one more time around the sun. here i am 18 yards down the line. about 8-1/2 years ago i was up by alamo park. [speaker not understood]. wow, what a great place in the open lake, the mother of all open lakes right there under that newly golden crusted dome on city hall. i ran down, i ran into then -- representing north beach, [speaker not understood]. i said, aaron, i've got an idea. i want to have a big open mic at city hall.

he said, great idea, let's do it. here it is eight years, 8-1/2 years down the line inviting you all to come outctionv down to dedicate this [speaker not understood] whose birthday it is, san francisco's great poet bob crawford. [speaker not understood]. the poet says the poem is not to explain. it is what it is, a fish with frog's eyes, creation is perfect. thank you, brothers and sisters. [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon, president chiu and members of the board of supervisors. i am [inaudible] -- thank you. i am [speaker not understood], and it has been an honor, a privilege and pleasure to organize palms under the dome since 2006. i have had poetry spoken inside

city hall contribute to civic engagement for youth and elder and contributes to the increasing awareness of ourselves that we must be -- that we must achieve to be creative, informed, and active members of our local and world communities. especially in the face of violence and inequality in the world. in thanks, i'm going to offer you a poem. and i am a public school teacher, so, this is something that i wrote for my students. it's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. our deepest communications are via metaphor. the meta poor are always at a disadvantage when the word don't mean what the words mean together. teacher, mulch my imagination so brain flowers bloom, butterflies migrate ear to ear

and bees bring pollen out of my mouth. thank you all so much for your support. please come downstairs at 5:30 on april 18th for poems under the dome. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. hello. my name is valerie ed bera. i'm a poet, a fifth generation san franciscan. i went to [speaker not understood] -- supervisor farrell stepped away. my brother went to sacred heart, my mom went to rear don and [speaker not understood]. i want to read a poem today and thank you for welcoming the poetry community into city hall to celebrate national poetry month. this poem won first place at the beat museum poetry contest in 2007. it's called the pain of progress. simple world covered over with glitz and grit and greed, pleasure of plastic paradise [speaker not understood] and driving us up the walls. new buildings have to bring in trees that fit the look of

industry. [speaker not understood] day correspond um blocks the views and creativity. what doed good to metal facades do for boxed in metal transplants and [speaker not understood]? [speaker not understood] making room for modern money making market, serving up slices of privilege bread. no hope for the hopeless. no mind for searching eyes. [speaker not understood]. distant tips of the mountain tops. but what can we do to stop it? corporate cops prevent criminal pursuits. phone calls can't get through customer service to the real suits who obviously could careless for taste or class. or the world of brass unless their gold plated [speaker not understood], and the new patrons will be smoking up their [speaker not understood]. cappuccino cups piling in the trash, just another heap [speaker not understood] passed.

just think, not everyone gets to sit on such green grass as ours so we're lucky by far, [speaker not understood], hanging out standard and gift certificate covers. [speaker not understood], keeping up appearances for their other shallow males and the prepared graves from which they hail leaving their graphic flags [speaker not understood] good graces just ugly carpet bag intentions [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon, i'm virginia barrett co-editor with bobby coleman with the an theology occupy s.f., this seems to be the afternoon for poetry. i didn't know this day was coming but i'm supporting him as well along with alejandro [speaker not understood] fellow revolutionary of the [speaker not understood]. i host open mic at the haight. i'll be here tomorrow for thursday for poems under the

dome. i offer a short poem. this relates to unused public spaces. the garden of humanitarian. the garden of humantarians in golden gate park is deserted. the wooden green benches and tables sit vacant. where has all the ben he have lance gone? i enter the grove and find a crumpled up pack of cigarettes and orange peels scattered on the ground. as far humanity goes, this place is forgotten and forlorn. still, the birds sing from tree limbs over the yellow of these ever present flowers. thank you. and i encourage each one of you to visit your district branch library and look at the shelf

for poetry. it's usually only about this long. and i think that can be expanded and each neighborhood branch library should have books of poets from that neighborhood and the city in general. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. let's hear from our next poet. next poet indeed, supervisor. bobby coleman from the tenants union and other groups where i organize poets, writers and artists. i want to thank the supervisors for their support of poetry literature and the great history of cultural arts in san francisco during national poetry month. i want to thank supervisors mar -- supervisor mar for his kind comments, and supervisor avalos for fine reading of a wonderful poem and the haiku to the mayor during question time which i saw. and all the supervisors for considering that the legacy of san francisco in a way depends upon the continuation of the

legacy of the poetry arts in san francisco. also to my fellow poets and other kind comments and contributions today, and to the laureate alejandro magia, i poem today is a third of the traditional trip let of haikus that form a traditional haiku, just a small one, written after i read the agenda. public interest. the winds and blossoms of spring have no lobbyists. one more time. public interest. the winds and blossoms of spring have no lobbyists. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker.

hello, good afternoon. my name is douglas [speaker not understood]. just for the record, the sacred heart teams were staring at you. i did notice all 11 of you were properly seated and looking, looking like you were paying attention. so, thank you for doing that. just for the record, i went to sacred heart, graduate of 1970, and the dead gay man i always refer to mr. joseph [speaker not understood] who is also involved in the dead man's curse was a sacred heart graduate in 1966. so, that's why i keep harping on the subject because the kids of sacred heart, we fight for injustice no matter how long it takes and sooner or later we will defeat the government sooner or later. secondly, i'd like to note down examiner 2sfuc worker filed for porn e-mails and gambling. whatever happened to the

so-called pornography going on at san francisco general hospital? i was told it started before 1989 and it might still be continuing to this day. for the record, none of the supervisors and the mayor's office has publicly done anything about it. and i would like it known that if you keep delaying, eventually the federalies will march in here and do something if you don't. also, i'd like to encourage everyone to speak out about suspicious behavior, especially after yesterday's fiasco. and if you feel uncomfortable talking to some of my folks, then i would encourage everyone to speak to whoever authority you want to speak to and pass the information because every league will be avidly checked out as fast as possible.

let's put it this way. we don't want to see any innocent blood shed in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. hello, my name is annie elizabeth cromwell, i live in district 6 where we have undergrounded utilities. i'm here in support of that. i believe for our safety and for our tourism industry that it would best serve our community to have the entire city underground utilities. thank you. >> next speaker. mr. president, members of the board, as i sat there a few moments ago, i listened attentively to representative for district 9 and the nice words that she spoke about that

lady who, in my humble estimation, [speaker not understood] to help [speaker not understood] people arrive at their destination in life. what came to me was a poem, part of it say that life's great men all remind us we must make our lives sublime and leave it -- and part and leave behind us such faith in [speaker not understood]. that lady that was spoken of, she surely did leave a great legacy that although she is not with us today, she can be highly be spoken of and i

compliment you, supervisor, for district 9. thank you very much. >> thanks. next speaker. tom gilberti, [speaker not understood] apartments. last week i came out against the tenants in common that were trying to move forward for cost of living rental for the city. and i thought maybe we can make a deal. isn't that politics? if you get your 2000 plus rental units to can cost tenants in common, why can't we get rent control for every apartment built since 1979?

anyway, also i mentioned something about the 88 condos of sc ford, beautiful hilltop, dolores market. and in keeping in the same vein, i'd like the overhead, please. i would like to develop a fictional piece of property or piece of property in the fictional sort of way . what we have here is stockton street ~ and the new muni metro. and i would like for the board of supervisors to eminent domain me all the property around it so it kind of looks like that. i would like to build an 80 story, 70 story, 50 story apartment towers. we will call it the global birds nest village. i can sell it all the way across the world. dubai. people buy whole floors. it will be wonderful. we can build bridges across from one building to another

building. [speaker not understood] dwelling right around a muni central. of course these will have limousines down at the service, down in the basement, exquisite underground shops, the whole nine yards. and the question i want to ask is, this is easier to get task and had built in this city than 26 units of a condo, 26 units of rent control cost of living apartments, 26 units -- thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood] and i live in the district 6. i harped on for months about hiv services and blah, blah, blah and all that stuff. what i end up doing is jumping into it and actually getting